Fig. 3

Method combination consolidates cancer-specfic pathways and downgrades unspecific pathways (TCGA RNA-seq data). a Competitive rank distributions of selected cancer-specific pathways (listed top right) for GSEA, NEA, and PathNet when applied to the UCEC RNA-seq data from TCGA. The orange rightmost boxplot depicts the corresponding rank distribution when combining the individual rankings by rank sum. Analogously, b depicts the rank distributions of selected unspecific pathways (listed at the top of the respective panel) that were top ranked by the 3 individual methods